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We tidied our hives today and brought in several old combs that need to be replaced. This is what I saw when I entered the house somewhat later:


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Haagen-Dazs is giving away a free scoop of any of their "Bee-built" ice cream flavors on May 12th. Single scoop in a cup or cone. Offer good between 4:00pm and 8:00pm at participating stores. Information can be found at Haagen-dazs.com

and here's a post about the White House Bees (with photos!) over at Blogspot.

linky to the First Hives! ( Read more... )

Dance of honeybee holds key to survival.

The "waggle dance" of honeybees is one of nature's great wonders: a sophisticated communication system that conveys distances and directions from the hive to sources of nectar. Now a British scientist is hoping to read the dance in order to reverse the honeybee's critical decline ( Read more... )

I get the basic concept behind solar extractors for wax, and I'm planning on building one this summer ( Read more... )

Apparently the Obamas are going to have two beehives at the White House

this will have bipartisan support in the beek community, I'm sure :)

A White House carpenter, Charlie Brandts, who is a beekeeper, will tend two hives for honey.

Source : the NY Times

The winter here in Connecticut has been cold, long and brutal (for these parts anyway). My outyard owner has lost chickens and goats, and I lost one of my hives :(

I had posted about an incident where a mouse guard was torn off a hive during a really nasty cold spell back in January. There was some activity in the hive at that point, bees buzzing ( Read more... )

I have just read about the mite resistant Russians bees. They sound amazing. Do any of you know if it is possible to order a whole package of Russian bees to start a hive? All I seem to be able to find are queens. Since I'm new and just thinking of starting a hive I'd rather start with a whole hive of Russians than Russian queen and Italian bees. ( Read more... )

I learned about the backyard hive on this forum so i figured I'd go ahead and ask a few of my questions ( Read more... )

I didn't mean to post my hive cleaning and equipment question and skedaddle, but I came down with food poisoning soon thereafer and didn't make it back to the computer for quite a while... I really appreciate the advice and will put it to good use. Luckily, our neighbor has an extractor which I'm pretty sure he'll let us borrow, so it looks like ( Read more... )